Lavena
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Modern given name; likely a variant of Lavinia or related to Latin root lav-, with uncertain origin
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries
Lavena is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 54K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 552K
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.5M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- 1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
603 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Modern given name; likely a variant of Lavinia or related to Latin root lav-, with uncertain origin.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lavena counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 603 | 1 in 552K | 598 | Lavena | 156 |
| KE Kenya | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 146K | — | Lavena | 7 |
| EG Egypt | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 723K | — | Lavena | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 659K | listed | Lavena | 42 |
| CA Canada | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 563K | — | Lavena | 15 |
| IE Ireland | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 273K | — | Lavena | 6 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 345K | — | Lavena | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 14 | 1 in 54K | 14 | — | 1 |
603 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Lavena is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, D’origine celtique, signifiant « gaie ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lavena mean, and where does it come from?
- Modern given name; likely a variant of Lavinia or related to Latin root lav-, with uncertain origin. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What are other forms of the name Lavena?
- In the etymology graph, Lavinia and Lavina are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Lavena a male or female name?
- Lavena is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Lavena have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 603 people named Lavena, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lavena.
- Where is Lavena most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lavena is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 54 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lavena?
- In the United States, the national register counted 603 people named Lavena in 2020, about 1 in 552 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lavenaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lavena”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.